Coupon book



June 17 1924.

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Patented June 1 7,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MAUNSELL C. WAKEFIELD, OF DALLAS, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR TO DALLAS ICE FACTORY,

O'F DALLAS,

COUPON BOOK.

Application flled December 9, 1922. Serial No. 605,827.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MAUNSELL C. WAKE- FIELD, citizen of the United States, residing at Dallas, in the county of Dallas and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coupon Books, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in coupon books.

The object of the lnvention is to provide means for ascertaining at a glance the value or number of coupons remaining in a book which has been in use and to do so without opening the book.

The invention is particularly applicable to ice coupon books which contain pages, each divided into a number of detachable coupons arranged to be torn off-transversely of the page. In such an arrangement each coupon is printed with a designation indicating the value or number of the coupons remaining in the book after the preceding coupon has been removed and the cover is provided with o enings or windows for exibiting said designation, so that the highest amount or number exhibited thru said windows may be easily ascertained.

Aconstruction designed to carr invention together'with other novel will be hereinafter described.

The invention will be more readily understood from a reading of the following specification and by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which an example of the invention is shown and wherein:

Fi 1 is face View of a coupon book embodylng the invention, which is shown in a closed position,

Fig. 2 is an inside view of the same showing one of the coupons detached,

a Fig. 3 is a vertlcal sectional View on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1, and

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary view of the lower portion of the book showing that coupons have been removed and indicating the value of those remaining.

In the drawings the numeral 10 indicates the cover of an ordinary coupon book and 11 the back thereof. It is customar to print the-name of the firm and other a vertising matter on the face of the cover, together with other data. Where the book is usedfor ice it is the practice to number the book out the features on the face of the cover and also to, indicate the total number of pounds for which the book is issued.

Within the book are bound a plurality of pages composed of separable or detachable coupons 12, each; bearing a designation 13 indlcating the number of pounds of ice for which the coupon will be redeemed. .Each coupon may also bear the same number as appears upon the cover.

I have shown four, coupons to the page each good for twenty-five pounds of ice, but both the number of coupons to the page the value thereof may be varied. In carrying out the invention it is of course deslrable that each coupon have the same unit value. Each cou on is printed with a numeral or other esignation 14 and these are arranged in successive order in the same sequence in which the coupons are to be detached.

The numerals 14 are printed at the same location on each coupon and the cover 10 is provided with a plurality of openings or windows 15 positioned so that the said numerals will register therewith, there being a separate window for each numeral 14.

.I have shown a bookissued for five hundred pounds of ice and therefore the first page of coupons will exhibit thru the winows the numeral 500 at the lowermost window and the numbers 475, 450 and 425, successively to the top. One glancing at the cover of the book would see that the largest number was 500 and therefore no coupons had been removed. In Figs. 2 and 4 I have shown a book in which some of the coupons have been removed and the bottom coupon of the front page having been detached. The coupons above the detached coupon exhibit the numbers 375, 350 and 325, while the bottom couponof the next page which is exposed exhibits the numeral 300.

One looking at the cover of the book would see these numbers thru the windows 15 and 375 being the highest, would indicate that coupons good for 37 5 pounds, still remained in the book. When the last page was reached the numbers 100, 75, and 25 would be exhibited thru the windows and it would be seen by both the customer and the dealer or iceman, that the book was nearly exhausted.

I I It is customary to hang these books on the wall and by may determine at any time by a mere glance, 'ust how much remains in the book, just ow many coupons the iceman removes and when it is necessaryto purchase a new book. It also forms a check at the oflice of dealer as after each delivery the coupon bearing the successive numeral 14 should be brought in. I

Various changes in the size and shape of Y the parts as well as modifications may be claims.

made within the scope of the appended What I claim, is: 1. In a coupon book, a cover having spaced openings, and detachable coupons in the "book each having a value designation adapted to register with one of the openings, wherebythe highest designation may be observed thru one of the openings.

. 2. In a coupon book, a cover having spaced openings, pages of coupons in the book,'there being a separate opening for each coupon, and each coupon having a value designation registering with the opening for said coupon, the value designations of the couthe use of my invention one pons on each page diminishing in value upwardly of the page.

3. In a coupon boo a cover having spaced openings, pages of coupons detachable in said book, there being a separate opening for each coupon on a age, each coupon being printed with a va ue designation indicating the value of the coupons remaining in the book after the preceding coupons have been detached, each value designation registering with one of the openings, whereby the value of the cou ons remaining undetached may be observed at a glance.

4. In a coupon book, a cover having spaced openings, pages .ofcoupons detachable in said book and each having alike unitof value and each coupon being printed with a value designation of one unit less than the preceding coupons and equal to the comined value of all the coupons remaining in the book after the preceding coupons have been detached, there being an opening for each coupon of a page and each value designation registering with one of the openings.

In testimony whereof I affix my si ature.

MAUNSELL C. WAKEFI LD. 

